This folder contains "Congressional Hearing Dataset: 105th through 114th Congresses" which is also 
the replication dataset for "When Do Politicians Grandstand? Measuring Message Politics in Committee Hearings" 
by Ju Yeon Park. The manuscript is accepted for publication at the Journal of Politics in June, 2019.
When you are using the data or any part of the data, please cite this paper.

The replication packet includes six data files and one R code for replication for all tables and figures
that appear in both the main paper and the online supplemental materials.

The six data files are as follows:

1. Data_member: Member-level House hearing dataset

2. Data_member_ns: Member-level House hearing dataset constructed excluding select committee hearings

3. Data_speech: Statement-level House hearing dataset

4. Data_speech_ns: Statement-level House hearing dataset excluding select committee hearings

5. Data_training: 3000 training paragraphs used to construct the grandstanding score (gscore)

6. Summary_of_39learners: The summary of validation statistics for the 39 machine learning models   




If you have any questions regarding the dataset, please contact me at park.juyeon85@gmail.com